By George Thompson The way you keep on working you and improve yourself with time, so does Indian Railways. Many folks have an impression that Indian railways are stuck and no growth is taking place in that area. If you think that way then your thought process is certainly conventional and information is outdated.
You have no idea that there have been tremendous progresses that have taken place in the domain of railways in India. Plenty of facilities, new trains, features and schemes came into existence for the ease and comfort of passengers. Just because you have no idea about these lately provided facilities or emerging options; you cannot blame the Indian railways.
An important role to play
You know Indian Railways in the present time play a significant role for the entire lower and upper middle class sectoral travel section. The medium serves as the most low-cost mode of transport among the chief travel modes in the country. With a humble beginning in India since 1853, the Indian Railways has emerged in the present time as the main vehicle for socio-economic development of the nation.
It might add on to your knowledge that railway in India is a labour intensive industry and it has a workforce of more than 13.6 lakhs staffs. Indian railway is one of the hugest employment providers in the nation. Employment generation has been one of the chief purposes of development planning in the nation. Indian railway is contributing significantly to employment generation. Speaking of its facilities and features like Pnr check, ticket availability facilities, tracking system and toll free numbers and so on; these features have emerged as assets to Indian Railway. Even if you want to get fresh food while you travel, you can get it from Railway Restaurant. You can order the food of your choice and it gets delivered to you while you are travelling.
Why to choose railways over road in India?
It is true that rail transportation has some positive characteristics when compared to road transportation. Railway is six times much more energy-efficient if you compare it to road and four times much more low-cost. The social price in terms of environment injury or any kind of degradation is absolutely lower in rail. The costs of railway construction are nearly six times lower than compared to road for comparable degrees of traffic. It is the only chief transport mode that is proficient of using any type of main energy. It might also come as a surprise to you that Indian railways are not just generating formal employment but also a large scale of informal employment through its forward and backward links. And you cannot deny the fact that Indian railways transfer lakhs of passengers every single day. Whether you speak of a simple slow train, super-fast trains such as Rajdhani express or any other kind of train; passengers are all over the place.
Conclusion
Thus, the bottom line is that Indian railways are a great mode of transportation. You not just feel comfortable in trains but you should also be proud of the train facilities by Indian Railways.
Lorenzo Billie 
NFL